Subject: Re: Dream Sequence - Identity of the Dwarf
From: dan@gnu.UUCP
Date: 1990-08-27, 00:54
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

In article <0093BA16.023D8720@robot.nuceng.ufl.edu> carl@robot.nuceng.ufl.edu 
(Drifter...) writes:
> >In article <1990Aug23.031129.7956@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, dan@gnu.ai.mit.edu 
(Dan "Parmenator-X" Parmenter) writes:
>> >>More importantly, I believe that the dwarf is seen briefly in the final
>> >>episode, tying Audrey up.  We do see a small, mysterious figure tie her up and 
>> >>slip away.
> > 
> >  We do?
> >  I sure as hell didn't...
> >  Someone check this out. I don't remember anything like that scene above,
> >but if there was one I want to know.

Don't believe me, eh?  Well I was right and wrong.  As a previous poster 
pointed out, the hunched-over figure is an old crone, putting the "final
touches" on Audrey.  So it isn't the dwarf.  I guess I wasn't paying close
enough attention the first time through, but I just watched it again.
However, how you could have missed the wscene I described, is beyond me.
A small, mysterious figure does appear and scurry away.

My hypothesis here is that the sexual act will in fact be consummated in the
dark, and then once the lights come on, surprise!

Hmm, getting back to this crone - isn't the crone a symbol in various
mythologies, including Tarot cards?  Any Tarot types out there?
If the crone is in fact some sort of symbol, what exactly is it a symbol OF?

The whole show, the more I think about it, is full of symbolism like that.
Primal imagery like the deer's head, cryptic references to the "evil in the
woods", "Ghost Wood" - this above and beyond all the more obvious
mysticism of Agent Cooper, Mrs. Palmer and the Log Lady.  Are they ever going 
to get back to the evil in the woods?  What exactly is it, giant ants?

- Dan